As you may be aware one of the great things about social media is
its reach and, as we saw from the various forms of the Arab
Spring, its ability to bring about rapid change.
A number of initiatives have been using social media platforms in
Africa in innovative new ways – particularly when it comes to
engaging and activating wider audiences – and particularly the
youth – around issues that matter the most to them.
On the 22nd of October 2014 I spoke at Strathmore University -...

The Zambian Children's Climate Conference 7 (ZCCC7) training of
trainers kicked off yesterday in Zambia's Capital, Lusaka, with
50 child climate ambassadors drown from all the 10 provinces of
Zambia taking part. The conference aims at building and grooming
a new generation of youth ethical and visionary leaders from
different social backgrounds, bringing them together to share
ideas, identify ,and devise solution to the most pressing
environmental issues in their respective communi...

Despite improvements, 289,000 women still die every year from
complications at birth and 6.6 million children do not live to
see their fifth birthday, including nearly 3 million newborns. At
least 200 million women and girls are unable to access family
planning services that would allow them to control when they have
children.Recent data published in The Lancet Every Newborn Series
indicate that 15,000 babies are born and die every day without
ever receiving a birth or death certif...

On 5 June, child climate ambassadors across Zambia joined the
rest of the world in commemorating the 2014 World Environment
Day. The local theme was ‘Raise Your Voice, Not the Green House
Gases – Protect the Environment.’ In Lusaka, the ambassadors
joined the national commemoration at the Olympic Youth
Development Centre (OYDC). The activities included a two
kilometer awareness walk, school art competition, exhibitions and
speeches by the Acting Honorable Minister of Lands, Natural...

Positive Deviance is based on the observation that in every
community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon
behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to
problems than their peers, while having access to the same
resources and facing similar or worse challenges.
This is a video profiling of a Zambian based Voices of Youth
Connect Educator called Josephine. She explains how she has
emerged has a shining example in her community called Kanyama....

Education is important for everyone, but it is especially
significant for girls and women. This is true not only because
education is an entry point to other opportunities, but also
because the educational achievements of women can have ripple
effects within the family and across generations. Investing in
girls' education is one of the most effective ways to reduce
poverty. Investments in secondary school education for girls
yields especially high dividends.
In our quest to enhance...

It was 5 am in the morning,this time I was heading 352 Kilometers
north of Lusaka. Like always, I was very excited because I was
going to meet 100 plus young people from 5 School in both Central
and Copperbelt provinces of Zambia.
After covering a stretch of approximately 300 kilometers north of
Lusaka I arrived at Chifubu Secondary School in the Copperbelt
Province. Upon my arrival I headed to the headteachers office to
pay courtesy and also hear his view on how the pupils are
performing academ...

The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) in the past few
weeks rejected a proposal by Australia’s Zambezi Resources to
develop a US $494-million opencast copper mine in lower Zambezi
national park because of environmental concerns. This came into
effect after this autonomous body (ZEMA) carried out an
Environmental Impact Assessment (EPA) which revealed several
issues which included the copper leach process whose affluence
could have affected with the ecosystem. Zambia is...

The internet has become part of our everyday life because of its
ease access and diversity. Today, pupils from Luanshya Boys
Secondary School on the Copperbelt Province of Zambia took part
in a training on Connect. The training was blended with sessions
on how to avoid plagiarism, re-blogs, and ways of creating a
realist, achiveable and time-bound action-plan. The school
received a router to enhance easy internet access to the pupils.
This was done in a quest to assist pupils to sh...

Brighton_EduConnect_Zambia

IN-COUNTRY COORDINATOR FOR THE 'CONNECT PROJECT.'

Member since February 5, 2014

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